Udev vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Udev is made by Udev Project. We track 4 published vulnerabilities in it, across 166 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Udev, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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- 81%CVE-2009-1185High
udev before 1.4.1 does not verify whether a NETLINK message originates from kernel space, which allows local users to gain privileges by sending a NETLINK message from user space.
- 2.3%CVE-2010-4176Medium
plymouth-pretrigger.sh in dracut and udev, when running on Fedora 13 and 14, sets weak permissions for the /dev/systty device file, which allows remote authenticated users to read terminal data from tty0 for local users.
- 0.5%
Buffer overflow in the util_path_encode function in udev/lib/libudev-util.c in udev before 1.4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (service outage) via vectors that trigger a call with crafted arguments.
- 0.4%CVE-2011-0640Medium
The default configuration of udev on Linux does not warn the user before enabling additional Human Interface Device (HID) functionality over USB, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary programs via...
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udev before 1.4.1 does not verify whether a NETLINK message originates from kernel space, which allows local users to gain privileges by sending a NETLINK message from user space.
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We track 4 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Udev, across 166 versions.
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